August-September 1980

Welcome to this weeks episode of The Heavy Metal History Podcast.We move forward to the months of August through September in 1980. I once again cover a few punk rock records to show its importance of crossover within the metal genre. We see Black Flag’s first EP that was marred with line-up changes which the band would deal with for years to come and Dead Kennedy’s thrust the Bay Area punk scene into the world with the release of their biggest and most well known album that would prove to be quite as outspoken as their leading man Jello Biafra. Saxon keeps their output going with their 2nd release of 1980. Finally we close out with the once leading man of Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osborne, crossover to even more success with is solo career and unleashing Randy Rhodes into the world with “Blizzard of Ozz”The albums we discussed this week were:Black Flag - "Jealous Again"Dead Kennedy's - "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables"Saxon - "Strong Arm of the Law"Ozzy Osbourne - "Blizzard of Ozz"Follow the Podcast!Facebook InstagramYouTube